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Insurance companies, therefore, know two things: one, that people essentially have to take out insurance policies; and two, that a certain number of people, despite advice to the contrary, will inevitably set themselves on fire.
People betrayed us, numbers did not. I was surrounded by chaos, but numbers represented order.
That’s how it is these days. People want everything for free. Nobody wants to pay for an artist’s work. Everybody thinks if they had the time and inclination, they could have painted something similar. Not even similar, but better.’
I could easily push this trolley for a thousand kilometres, I think, as long as she is by my side.
The thought of her still mauls my guts and clouds my eyes, but in a strange, nostalgic way I am glad I told her what I think of her: that she is extraordinary, that she has awoken something within me that was previously unknown, almost non-existent. I have come to understand that it is in precisely these kinds of situations that people talk about love. I don’t know what else might feel quite like this – happy and sad and bright and very, very unclear, all at once. And I can look at the whole
